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TIL Travelling and watching movies will increase the likelihood of experiencing déjà vu

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xVAPk TIL on 1955, after parishioners barred the Rev. Gerald Lewis, an African American priest, from celebrating Mass at St. Cecilia’s Chapel (Louisiana), Archbishop Joseph Rummel put this church under interdict, banning Masses and other sacraments from being celebrated
rxp4 TIL that after a £26million bank heist in Belfast, the robbers toyed with the cops by breaking into the Police Service’ Private Country Club and placed £50,000 of the stolen loot in the toilets for them to find.
VB0v4 TIL there is a tiny strip of land within Yellowstone Park called the “Zone of Death”. A constitutional quirk would allow a murder or other crime to take place, but not have enough resident to form a jury. Theoretically allowing a “get away with murder free zone”.
7kor TIL that an artificial intelligence system named Watson started swearing during a game of Jeopardy because it had learned vocabulary from the Urban Dictionary.
e0o0D TIL in 2018, a firefighter in Massachusetts was reprimanded when he received a call from a concerned cat owner about their pet being stuck in a tree and he responded with, “I’m sure they’ll make their way down eventually. I’ve never seen a cat skeleton in a tree before.”